STEALING
For detailed discussions on the response to theft in Islam, see Thieves, give Muhammad a hand! and The Punishment for Theft.
Further aspects:
- can enter paradise even if committed theft, if does not commit idolatry, Sahih Bukhari 2.329, Sahih Bukhari 3.573, Sahih Bukhari 4.445
- cutting off hands as punishment,
al-Ma'idah 5:38
Khalifites - contradicting all schools of Islamic Shariah - believe that the punishment should be to cut (i.e. mark) their hands, not amputate them.
- forgiveness for (before discovery), al-Ma'idah 5:39
- is wrong even through the judiciary, al-Baqarah 2:188
- an-Nisa' 4:29